her phone recording this as the blast went off around here near the national university. a man on a pedestrian bridge in kyiv when the explosion goes off. where to go from there? he run towards the surveillance camera. ukraine s president reacting to this. he beliefs that they re using suicide drones, the russians, and that they re coming from iran. he vows he will not back down. we are dealing with terrorists. dozens of missiles. they want to destroy our energy system. now there may be temporary e interruptions with electricity. so all of this days a after president biden said that putin is not joking about the use of nuclear weapons and we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. in a moment, i ll be joined by mike pompeo. perfect guest to talk about where to go from here with ukraine. first, trey yingst reporting live from kharkiv ukraine, which is on that list of cities that were hit. hi, trey. martha, good afternoon. we
don t have the right sequence for firing or how to prepare them for launch. it is important the administration sends training simulators to make the javelins more effective. joey: switchblade anti-tank drones are another weapon the u.s. is providing ukrainian forces. what is a switchblade drone and how will it be used on the battlefield? yeah, the switchblades are incredible drone technology that is out there, essentially like if missile was to orbit and you are able to look at the target before strike. it makes it more surgical, in that regard. the switchblades have taken a while to get in the country and there are not many. the administration talked about sending another drone, the ghost drone, low cost suicide drone that behaves like the switchblade.
you going after a combat vehicle or is there a civilian vehicle in the way here? so it can discern that. there are ways it can be commandeered by ukrainian troops. it was a wave-off target and go to the target it was intended to hit. it s lethal around it s also apparently a cakamikaze drone. children and teenagers in ukraine seeing things they ll never forget, and they re bearing witness. why do you feel it was important to be here at this moment? translator: so people can see for themselves. the whole world should see how the russian comes and kills civilians for nothing. thisis is roundup for lawns. this stuff works.
together, and it was responsible for about 12% of ukraine s steel shipments back just before the invasion. so this is a big, big prize for them. but from a combat perspective, this is one of the toughest environments they can go into. it s no wonder they want to surround it and in essence stafb it out. i m interested in hearing about we learned today that new drone that the air force developed for ukraine, it s called the phoenix ghost drone. the pentagon says it provides similar capabilities to switchblade drones, they won t give away exactly what it can do. but what do you know about it? so the phoenix ghost is similar to what we said to the switch blade. this is switchblade animation, so if there are any details that are different, and i m sure there are, it s not going to be exactly like this. but it gives people the idea of what it can do. it can independently target different targets. for example, you can assess are